Sims v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
411 F.2d 661 · 1969
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably United States of America Ex Rel. Countee Williams v. John J. Twomey, Warden (1975), 96 Wis. 2d 122 - State v. Albright (1980)
19 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3481 · 18 U.S.C. § 4244 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Sam Destefano v. Woods, Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois. Frank Anthony Carceran
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the contrary, the federal rule seems to be that the exercise of this right is subject to the determination of competent trial counsel and varies with the facts of each case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i)n the federal courts, the privilege of an accused to testify in his own defense is merely statutory, abrogating the common law rule of incompetence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alicea v. Gagnon“habeas corpus relief by reason of ineffective assistance of counsel,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.